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Post by peterl on Nov 2, 2020 23:29:03 GMT
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Post by Foggy on Nov 3, 2020 0:17:44 GMT
PC gain from Liberal with 49.1% of the vote! Of the 2,858 valid votes, 1,900 were cast in advance. Considering the district had an electorate of just over 4,000 when it was created in 2017, I'd say that's a pretty good turnour for a by-election. On the day, the Greens won three polling places narrowly, whilst the Conservatives took the other six comfortably. The Liberals dropped to third place. The NDP remain on a minuscule share of the vote. Barring any further vacancies or defections, the Tories will now enjoy majority status in the Assembly until the spring of 2023. Worth repeating, of course, that the Progressive Conservatives in the Maritimes tend to be a lot less brash and more moderate then their counterparts in provincial parties further west. |
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Post by AJS on Nov 6, 2020 3:31:39 GMT
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Post by maxque on Nov 9, 2020 22:48:18 GMT
Projected NDP 55 Lib 29 Green 3. Pretty emphatic. May change still because postal voting won't be counted for 14 days. It's estimated to be 30% of the vote and polls say it will be heavilly for the NDP. Those ridings have not been called by media yet and won't until postal votes are counted (doesn't mean they might not have called other races by mistake due to postal votes). Abbotsford-Mission (Liberal by 188 votes) Chilliwack-Kent (NDP by 195 votes over disendorsed Liberal) Coquitlam-Burke Mountain (NDP by 2267 votes) Fraser-Nicola (Liberal by 385 votes) Langley East (NDP by 793 votes) Richmond South Centre (NDP by 124 votes) Richmond-Stevenson (NDP by 596 votes) Vancouver-Langara (Liberal by 647 votes) Vernon-Monashee (Liberal by 180 votes) Abbotsford-Mission and Vernon-Monashee were finally NDP gains and West Vancouver-Sea to Sky should a Liberal hold (was Green gain on election night, it's now going to a court recount due to the tight margin of 41 votes). NDP 57, Lib 28, Grn 2 |
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Post by Foggy on Nov 10, 2020 8:19:58 GMT
May change still because postal voting won't be counted for 14 days. It's estimated to be 30% of the vote and polls say it will be heavilly for the NDP. Those ridings have not been called by media yet and won't until postal votes are counted (doesn't mean they might not have called other races by mistake due to postal votes). Abbotsford-Mission (Liberal by 188 votes) Chilliwack-Kent (NDP by 195 votes over disendorsed Liberal) Coquitlam-Burke Mountain (NDP by 2267 votes) Fraser-Nicola (Liberal by 385 votes) Langley East (NDP by 793 votes) Richmond South Centre (NDP by 124 votes) Richmond-Stevenson (NDP by 596 votes) Vancouver-Langara (Liberal by 647 votes) Vernon-Monashee (Liberal by 180 votes) Abbotsford-Mission and Vernon-Monashee were finally NDP gains and West Vancouver-Sea to Sky should a Liberal hold ( was Green gain on election night, it's now going to a court recount due to the tight margin of 41 votes). NDP 57, Lib 28, Grn 2 Sounds like they should've stopped the count.  That's a bit of a kicking for the Liberals still. The combined forces of the right and centre in BC could only win a little over one third of the seats. For the Greens, this will have been the first election in Canada where they've actually gone backwards in seat terms. |
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Post by David on Nov 10, 2020 8:23:47 GMT
The predictions that Sask would overtake Alberta as Canada's most reliably right wing state may be being borne out. Tommy Douglas, where art thou? Trying to treat the "mental illness" of homosexuality? Jk. |
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Post by The Bishop on Nov 10, 2020 11:56:52 GMT
And as you know that was a not uncommon position in those days, however bad it seems now.
Whereas in 2020 we still have prominent people in the US Republican party promoting quacks who claim that homosexuality can be "cured".
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Post by maxque on Nov 10, 2020 14:25:37 GMT
The predictions that Sask would overtake Alberta as Canada's most reliably right wing state may be being borne out. Tommy Douglas, where art thou? Trying to treat the "mental illness" of homosexuality? Jk. It was actually the most "progressive" option then, as the alternative was jailing homosexuals. |
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Post by David on Nov 10, 2020 14:39:22 GMT
Trying to treat the "mental illness" of homosexuality? Jk. It was actually the most "progressive" option then, as the alternative was jailing homosexuals. Yes, to an extent. It was facetious remark, hence the "jk". |
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Post by redvers on Jan 23, 2021 22:49:33 GMT
Hasn't been mentioned but an early election's been called in Newfoundland and Labrador. Last run was in 2019 but an election this year was inevitable as provincial law unusually requires one be held within one year of a new Premier being sworn in outside election-time.
Last time saw the Liberals fall short of a majority by 1 seat, getting 20. The Progressive Conservatives got 15, the NDP 3, and a couple of independents got the rest. Don't follow NL politics much but I well recall reading when the new Premier, Andrew Furey, ran for the leadership, that it was seen as a poisoned chalice, on account of how poorly the economy was doing. Of the near 20 Liberal MLAs available, not one opted to run. Not a single one. Although Furey came from a political family, he himself had no political experience whatsoever from what I read. He was a surgeon. But, the party has soared in the polls over the course of the pandemic - one in December gave the Liberals 65% to the Tories' 22%. Lately Canadian governments calling early elections during the pandemic have all met with resounding success, so I guess Furey thinks now is as good a time as any to go.
The PC leader is also from a famous NL political family - the Crosbies.
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Post by Foggy on Jan 24, 2021 2:55:10 GMT
The two independents in the Newfoundland House of Assembly are ex-Liberals, so I guess the party has been governing alone via a constructive attitude from both of them. Elections in the province can be very one-sided when a government is popular, as the Danny Williams era demonstrated. If polling numbers hold, you'd expect the NDP to be reduced to one seat and the PCs into single figures as well.
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